By sponsoring the Nyakitonto community, you can help them to increase food production, grow their incomes and improve child health and nutrition.

Nyakitonto community challenges

Health

Local health centres are inadequately staffed and lack basic equipment. Child malnutrition is common amongst vulnerable families who don’t have the knowledge or resources to prepare nutritious meals.

Livelihoods

Deforestation and land degradation, combined with poor farming methods, make it difficult for farmers to grow enough to meet their families’ food and income needs. Children aged 0-5 are among those most affected.

What we're working on now

Goal

Improved maternal and child health

Activities

Building the capacity of community health committees

Promoting increased uptake of health services amongst families

Training community health workers on maternal and newborn healthcare

Supporting mobile health clinics and health outreach services

Goal

Increased food production

Activities

Establishing and training crop and livestock producer groups

Supporting households to establish vegetable gardens

Linking producer groups with farm input suppliers

Setting up demonstration farms where farmers can learn new skills

Goal

Improved incomes

Activities

Forming and training savings groups and linking them to financial services

About Nyakitonto community

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Distance to Australia

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The vast majority of Tanzanians work in agriculture, with many harvesting just enough to survive. This places a large proportion of the population at substantial risk from droughts and floods, which regularly affect the country.

A large influx of refugees from neighbouring Burundi has placed further pressure on Nyakitonto’s agricultural and grazing lands, which were already affected by decreasing forest and vegetation cover, as well as poor soil fertility. This has forced some farmers to leave the area in search of better farmland and added to the daily struggle of others.

The goal of the Nyakitonto community program is to build sustained wellbeing for children and families – especially the most vulnerable – through making improvements in the areas of health, nutrition and livelihoods.

With savings and credit co-operatives already established within this community, as well as formal and non-formal mechanisms to deal with any issues, the Nyakitonto community stands ready to make lasting changes for the benefit of all its people.

Sponsor Nyakitonto community

By sponsoring the Nyakitonto community, you can provide them with vital support as they work together to address the challenges they are facing.

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How your sponsorship helps

Your donations help cover current project costs like these.

Focus/Cost (A$)

Activity

Benefit

$438

Activity

Conducting four community awareness sessions on family planning.

Benefit

Parents can make more informed decisions about healthy timing and spacing of pregnancies.

$1,315

Activity

Supporting community leaders to set up an ambulance service for pregnant women and newborns.

Benefit

Mothers and infants have improved access to essential health services.

$1,644

Activity

Training farmers on crop production and livestock raising.

Benefit

Households gain new food and income sources.

$128,778

Activity

Rehabilitating and building 12 irrigation canals.

Benefit

Farmers have better access to water for crop production.

In order to reach the intended goal, there are strategic plans in place to improve household incomes, so that each household has the capacity to meet their basic needs, particularly, three meals per day, education and health services.

Dyanka Bilagambalaye

Nyakitonto Area Program Manager

Nyakitonto community updates

Vegetable farming takes off

More than 351 farmers in the Nyakitonto community have received training in improved farming techniques, with many also receiving seeds to aid crop production. These farmers are part of 29 commercial producer groups that have been formed and supported to help increase household incomes. New equipment including drip irrigation kits is also helping them to grow vegetables such as onions, tomatoes and eggplants that are in high market demand.

Healthcare reaches remote villages

In collaboration with the district council, the program is supporting monthly health outreach clinics in two villages in the community where the nearest health facility is a 40km walk away. A monthly average of 20 pregnant mothers and 250 children attend the clinics. Clinic staff are seeing improvements in the health and nutrition of the women and children attending.

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